These answers tied to “Gloomy” aren’t hypothetical—they come from crossword completions where solvers encountered the same clue wording. Each entry shown here proved to be correct.
Answers:
- DREARY
- DOWNBEAT
- DISMAL
- CHEERLESS
- DOUR
- DREAR
- SHADOWY
- MOROSE
- DIM
- GLUM
- SAD
- DULL
- UNLIT
- MOURNFUL
- SOMBRE
- MURKY
- GREY
- OVERCAST
- GRIM
- UNHAPPY
Synonyms and Definitions
DREARY
- Synonyms: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, grim, sorry
DISMAL
- Synonyms: dreary
CHEERLESS
- Synonyms: depressing, uncheerful
DOUR
- Synonyms: dogged, forbidding, glowering, glum, moody, morose, persistent, pertinacious, saturnine, sour, sullen, tenacious, unyielding
SHADOWY
- Synonyms: dim, faint, shadowed, shady, umbrageous, vague, wispy, wraithlike
MOROSE
- Synonyms: dour
DIM
- Synonyms: black, bleak, blind, blur, dense, dimmed, dip, dull, dumb, obtuse, shadowy, slow, slur, subdued
SAD
- Synonyms: deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful
DULL
- Synonyms: benumb, blunt, boring, damp, dampen, deadening, ho-hum, irksome, leaden, muffle, muffled, mute, muted, numb, pall, sluggish, softened, tedious, thudding, tiresome, tone down, wearisome
UNLIT
- Synonyms: lightless, unilluminated, unlighted
MOURNFUL
- Synonyms: doleful, plaintive
SOMBRE
- Synonyms: melancholy, sober, somber
MURKY
- Synonyms: cloudy, mirky, muddy, turbid
GREY
- Synonyms: gray, gray-haired, gray-headed, grayish, grayness, grey-haired, grey-headed, greyish, greyness, grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-haired
OVERCAST
- Synonyms: cloud, cloud cover, cloud-covered, clouded, cloudiness, overcasting, sunless
GRIM
- Synonyms: depressed, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, ghastly, grisly, gruesome, inexorable, low, low-spirited, macabre, mordant, relentless, sick, stern, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting
UNHAPPY
- Synonyms: distressed, dysphoric, infelicitous